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This week’s episode of The Flash, “Luck Be A Lady” showcases how hazardous bad luck can be, as The Flash and his team are hit by a string of unfortunate events. We have a mysterious new metahuman by the name of Hazard (a.k.a. Becky Sharpe), who can turn her luck at the expense of the people around her. It also reveals the cause for the creation of new metas (kudos to Barry Allen who was the sole reason behind this) as they were hit by the dark matter of the speed force.
The writers of the Flash were in terrific form as they deliver one more winner in this season. The ill-fated sequences like Flash tripping by stepping on marbles, the priest in the church allergic to spices or Jessie breaking up with Wally work for the larger part due to the tight writing.
This week’s episode of The Flash, “Luck Be A Lady” showcases how hazardous bad luck can be, as The Flash and his team are hit by a string of unfortunate events. We have a mysterious new metahuman by the name of Hazard (a.k.a. Becky Sharpe), who can turn her luck at the expense of the people around her. It also reveals the cause for the creation of new metas (kudos to Barry Allen who was the sole reason behind this) as they were hit by the dark matter of the speed force.
The writers of the Flash were in terrific form as they deliver one more winner in this season. The ill-fated sequences like Flash tripping by stepping on marbles, the priest in the church allergic to spices or Jessie breaking up with Wally work for the larger part due to the tight writing.
- 10/25/2017
- by Ravi Teja
- Age of the Nerd
This week on The Flash, luck came in many forms as a meta with some very good juju brought bad times to Barry & Co.
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As chronicled by The Thinker’s opening voiceover, Rebecca/Becky Sharpe (played by my new crush Sugar Lyn Beard) was a casino dealer who throughout life suffered myriad indignities — having a MySpace page in the year 2017 apparently among them. Her status as a self-described jinx was changed one day, however, when fresh from being canned she hot-footed it in fishnets to catch a life-changing bus ride.
PhotosQuotes of the Week From The Flash, Legends and More
As chronicled by The Thinker’s opening voiceover, Rebecca/Becky Sharpe (played by my new crush Sugar Lyn Beard) was a casino dealer who throughout life suffered myriad indignities — having a MySpace page in the year 2017 apparently among them. Her status as a self-described jinx was changed one day, however, when fresh from being canned she hot-footed it in fishnets to catch a life-changing bus ride.
- 10/25/2017
- TVLine.com
To date, The Flash has utilized no shortage of villains culled from the comic books, which is quite understandable when you take the Scarlet Speedster’s impressive rogues gallery into account. While we’ve seen more well known knaves such as Captain Cold, Mirror Master and the Reverse-Flash give the S.T.A.R. Labs crew headaches, there have also been more obscure baddies featured like Girder and Magenta. And, as you could probably gather, the latest addition to the enduring television saga falls in with the latter.
In tonight’s ironically titled episode, “Luck Be A Lady,” Sugar Lyn Beard debuts as Becky Sharpe Aka Hazard, a woman possessing one of the most bizarre power sets we’ve seen thus far. In a nutshell, she’s been experiencing much good fortune on her end, but it comes at the expense of giving other residents of Central City serious rounds of bad luck.
In tonight’s ironically titled episode, “Luck Be A Lady,” Sugar Lyn Beard debuts as Becky Sharpe Aka Hazard, a woman possessing one of the most bizarre power sets we’ve seen thus far. In a nutshell, she’s been experiencing much good fortune on her end, but it comes at the expense of giving other residents of Central City serious rounds of bad luck.
- 10/24/2017
- by Eric Joseph
- We Got This Covered
Bates Motel ingenue Olivia Cooke is set to play Becky Sharp in the latest adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.
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Published in 1848, the classic novel follows the lives of Becky, Emmy Sedley and their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. The new, seven-part Amazon Studios/ITV co-production, per Deadline, promises to chronicle Becky’s “attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society,” unspooling her “story of villainy, crime, merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing.” Filming is expected to start in September.
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Published in 1848, the classic novel follows the lives of Becky, Emmy Sedley and their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. The new, seven-part Amazon Studios/ITV co-production, per Deadline, promises to chronicle Becky’s “attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society,” unspooling her “story of villainy, crime, merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing.” Filming is expected to start in September.
- 6/28/2017
- TVLine.com
The following article has been adapted from a lengthier essay on the film written in 2011.Cinema is always in a state of change. Consequences of this constant flux become more obvious in retrospect, as movements come and go and film form evolves. One of the clearest indications of cinema’s major shifts lies in its technological advancements. Today’s changes are anything but subtle—we can notice them as they occur before us. Regardless of where one stands on the topic of cinema’s health as an art form, it can be agreed that it is going through some of its most monumental changes. Indeed it is even technically switching mediums, as the digital revolution is rendering celluloid obsolete. In Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011), new technology is revealed to be not a danger but a challenge, and an opportunity to explore new potential in filmmaking. The essentials of film form...
- 5/13/2015
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
Robert Pattinson out of ‘Mission: Blacklist’ movie (photo: Dane DeHaan and Robert Pattinson in ‘Life’) Robert Pattinson and Mission: Blacklist have parted ways. Pattinson, whose name had been attached to the project for two years — since Cannes 2012 — has reportedly dropped out due to scheduling issues. Now, what could those issues be? Well, Robert Pattinson, best known (at least for the time being) as the vampire Edward Cullen in the immensely popular Twilight movie franchise, has no less than two movies opening at Cannes 2014: David Michôd’s thriller The Rover, co-starring Guy Pearce, which will be shown as one of Cannes’ Midnight Screenings, and David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars, also featuring Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Mia Wasikowska, and Carrie Fisher, and which is in the running for the Palme d’Or. There’s more: Robert Pattinson has recently completed work on Anton Corbijn’s Life, with Pattinson as photographer Dennis Stock,...
- 4/29/2014
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
Fans may have gotten all in a tizzy over Kristen Stewart's recent real-life indiscretions, but Robert Pattinson hasn't exactly been the most faithful soul either, at least cinematically.
R.Pattz has more than a few notches on his belt on the big screen, including "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" and his new head trip "Cosmopolis," and we're going to count every single salacious piece of tail this sparkly vampire has sunk his teeth, among other things, into.
'Vanity Fair' (2004)
Character: Rawdy Crawley
Number of Conquests: 0
Although his scenes were deleted and only available as an alternate ending on the DVD, this film is notable for being Pattinson's first major appearance and his first role alongside Reese Witherspoon. He briefly plays the son of her literary heroine Becky Sharp, a pairing that would come back to haunt him later in his career.
'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire...
R.Pattz has more than a few notches on his belt on the big screen, including "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" and his new head trip "Cosmopolis," and we're going to count every single salacious piece of tail this sparkly vampire has sunk his teeth, among other things, into.
'Vanity Fair' (2004)
Character: Rawdy Crawley
Number of Conquests: 0
Although his scenes were deleted and only available as an alternate ending on the DVD, this film is notable for being Pattinson's first major appearance and his first role alongside Reese Witherspoon. He briefly plays the son of her literary heroine Becky Sharp, a pairing that would come back to haunt him later in his career.
'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire...
- 8/28/2012
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
Actress Joyce Redman, Oscar nominated for both Tom Jones and Othello, died in Kent, England, earlier today. The Newcastle-born Redman, who was either 93 or 96, had been suffering from pneumonia. Film lovers will remember her as Tom Jones‘ Mrs. Waters, stealing the movie while “sexting” — as in, sex while eating — Albert Finney. Mostly a stage and television performer, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art-trained Redman appeared in only a handful of movies. Yet, her brief film career was notable because of her two Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nominations. In fact, Redman brought "Oscar luck" to her movies and fellow players: Best Picture Oscar winner Tom Jones (1963) earned five nominations in the acting categories (Joyce Redman, Albert Finney, Diane Cilento, Dame Edith Evans, Hugh Griffith), while the filmed version of Britain’s National Theatre presentation of Othello (1965) earned four (Joyce Redman as Emilia, Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay). Regarding the nominations for the Othello actors,...
- 5/11/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Robert Pattinson smoulders his way around 19th-century Paris in this hammy Maupassant adaptation
Robert Pattinson has to do an awful lot of hollow-eyed smouldering in this hammily enunciated French period drama, taken from the 1885 novel by Guy de Maupassant. He plays Georges, a young fellow on the make in Paris, and those cheekbones are soon cutting a swath through fashionable womanhood; he beds simpering society women who cadge jobs for him from their powerful husbands. He's a cross between Becky Sharp and Dorian Gray. As super-sexy political hostess Madeleine, Uma Thurman is always rolling around perfumed boudoirs in her underwear, scanning state papers and declaiming things like: "Look at the grain exports to Algiers!" The most dangerously self-conscious liaison is with Mme Walters, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, who is demurely at prayer when Georges shows up vampirically behind her, looking for a socially advantageous shag. "You are trying to seduce me in church!
Robert Pattinson has to do an awful lot of hollow-eyed smouldering in this hammily enunciated French period drama, taken from the 1885 novel by Guy de Maupassant. He plays Georges, a young fellow on the make in Paris, and those cheekbones are soon cutting a swath through fashionable womanhood; he beds simpering society women who cadge jobs for him from their powerful husbands. He's a cross between Becky Sharp and Dorian Gray. As super-sexy political hostess Madeleine, Uma Thurman is always rolling around perfumed boudoirs in her underwear, scanning state papers and declaiming things like: "Look at the grain exports to Algiers!" The most dangerously self-conscious liaison is with Mme Walters, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, who is demurely at prayer when Georges shows up vampirically behind her, looking for a socially advantageous shag. "You are trying to seduce me in church!
- 3/9/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
There hasn't been a ton of discussion about Martin Scorsese's Hugo around these parts as of yet, mainly because most of us still haven't seen it -- and judging from the box office numbers, a lot of other people still haven't seen it yet either. It's probably both a blessing and a curse that the only thing people seem to be talking about is the fact that it's Scorsese's first time shooting in 3D. Of course, as it turns out, that's the only thing he seems to be talking about either. Over the past week or two he has done a handful of interviews and talks about the future of 3D movies, and he definitely seems to have bought into the technology wholeheartedly. Just how much does he love 3D? He even went so far as to say that he would prefer to continue working exclusively with 3D from here on in.
- 11/29/2011
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Following the success of Hugo, the director says his previous films such as Taxi Driver might have benefited from stereoscopy
The Oscar-winning film-maker, Martin Scorsese, has said he would prefer to shoot all his future films in 3D following his experiences with new movie Hugo, which has received impressive critical notices and is being tipped for awards season success.
In an interview with the Deadline blog, Scorsese also suggested that his previous films Taxi Driver and The Aviator might have benefited from being shot in stereoscope. He compared the recent wave of films using the technology to the arrival of Technicolor in the mid-1930s.
Scorsese was asked by Deadline if he would prefer to shoot all his movies in 3D going forward. "Quite honestly, I would," he replied. "I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.
The Oscar-winning film-maker, Martin Scorsese, has said he would prefer to shoot all his future films in 3D following his experiences with new movie Hugo, which has received impressive critical notices and is being tipped for awards season success.
In an interview with the Deadline blog, Scorsese also suggested that his previous films Taxi Driver and The Aviator might have benefited from being shot in stereoscope. He compared the recent wave of films using the technology to the arrival of Technicolor in the mid-1930s.
Scorsese was asked by Deadline if he would prefer to shoot all his movies in 3D going forward. "Quite honestly, I would," he replied. "I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.
- 11/28/2011
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
It's one thing to break out at Sundance as the star of two premieres ("Another Earth" and "Sound of Your Voice"). It's quite another order of magnitude to also function as co-writer of those films. Meet double-threat Brit Marling, brainy beauty and new "It Girl" of the Amerindie scene.
An economics major at Georgetown University, Marling gravitated toward filmmaking after seeing a short she loved at a student festival co-directed by fellow Georgetown alums Mike Cahill (director of "Another Earth") and Zal Batmanglij (director of "Sound of Your Voice"). Following a stint as a banking analyst at Goldman Sachs, she made the unlikely segue to full-time actor and screenwriter. Her new film "Another Earth," winner of the Sundance Jury Prize and bowing in limited release July 23, is a mix of sci-fi hi-concept and indie vibe that eludes classification. Says Cahill, "No matter what you know about the film going in,...
An economics major at Georgetown University, Marling gravitated toward filmmaking after seeing a short she loved at a student festival co-directed by fellow Georgetown alums Mike Cahill (director of "Another Earth") and Zal Batmanglij (director of "Sound of Your Voice"). Following a stint as a banking analyst at Goldman Sachs, she made the unlikely segue to full-time actor and screenwriter. Her new film "Another Earth," winner of the Sundance Jury Prize and bowing in limited release July 23, is a mix of sci-fi hi-concept and indie vibe that eludes classification. Says Cahill, "No matter what you know about the film going in,...
- 7/18/2011
- by IFC
- ifc.com
Tai the Elephant is having a big year. And that's big even by the standards of elephants.
The Hollywood veteran starred earlier this year in "Like Water for Elephants" (as the elephant, natch), and now takes a lead role in "Zookeeper," playing one of many talking creatures who school Kevin James in the language of love.
How many other actresses can boast of starring opposite Robert Pattinson and Kevin James in a single year? It's clear that Tai the Elephant has become the go-to elephant in Hollywood these days. Eat your hearts out, um, all you other elephants.
Tai has been parading around the Hollywood circus for decades now, consistently turning in tusk-turning performances. We're proud to present the high-profile pachyderm's seven greatest stunts.
7. 'The Jungle Book' (1994)
When the animated Disney classic "The Jungle Book" was being adapted into a live-action film, the producers knew that only the...
The Hollywood veteran starred earlier this year in "Like Water for Elephants" (as the elephant, natch), and now takes a lead role in "Zookeeper," playing one of many talking creatures who school Kevin James in the language of love.
How many other actresses can boast of starring opposite Robert Pattinson and Kevin James in a single year? It's clear that Tai the Elephant has become the go-to elephant in Hollywood these days. Eat your hearts out, um, all you other elephants.
Tai has been parading around the Hollywood circus for decades now, consistently turning in tusk-turning performances. We're proud to present the high-profile pachyderm's seven greatest stunts.
7. 'The Jungle Book' (1994)
When the animated Disney classic "The Jungle Book" was being adapted into a live-action film, the producers knew that only the...
- 7/5/2011
- by Justin Sedgwick
- NextMovie
Before the 1950s, film wasn't always black and white. The early Thomas Edison shorts of the late 1890s were occasionally in color, produced by having artists hand-paint individual film frames (and you thought your job was dull). In the early teens, monochromatic film tinting became used to differentiate day scenes from night (often tinted blue). The problem that early filmmakers had with color film was the technology; color film had to be produced bypassing multiple, color filtered, negatives through a camera and then compositing them. It was an expensive process, driving shooting costs up nearly three times of black and white photography. With the exception of a handful of films throughout the 1930s-1940s (The Adventures of Robin Hood, Becky Sharp, some Walt Disney shorts), actual color film was a rare treat for filmgoers.
This began to change in the 1950s when television, film's adversary for the domination of the...
This began to change in the 1950s when television, film's adversary for the domination of the...
- 3/31/2011
- by Drew Morton
British actors sound clearly different at Us award ceremonies but these days you'd never know it on film
You probably won't remember Bonar Colleano (or unmemorable films starring him, like Good-time Girl). He was thin and, well, bony, with slicked-back hair, and just 34 when his car crashed 53 years ago. But he made a good living in British movies for a decade before that because he came from New York City, and was thus available to play GIs and mobsters on demand in a natural American accent Britain's homegrown B-movie actors couldn't mimic for love or for money. But now see how the world has changed.
Here's Christian Bale from Haverfordwest at the Oscars tonight after doing raw Massachusetts to the manner born. And, turning on the television, there's Hugh Laurie from Oxford still playing in House. That drunken McNulty cop in The Wire? Dominic West from Eton. (He could have been David Cameron's fag.
You probably won't remember Bonar Colleano (or unmemorable films starring him, like Good-time Girl). He was thin and, well, bony, with slicked-back hair, and just 34 when his car crashed 53 years ago. But he made a good living in British movies for a decade before that because he came from New York City, and was thus available to play GIs and mobsters on demand in a natural American accent Britain's homegrown B-movie actors couldn't mimic for love or for money. But now see how the world has changed.
Here's Christian Bale from Haverfordwest at the Oscars tonight after doing raw Massachusetts to the manner born. And, turning on the television, there's Hugh Laurie from Oxford still playing in House. That drunken McNulty cop in The Wire? Dominic West from Eton. (He could have been David Cameron's fag.
- 2/28/2011
- by Peter Preston
- The Guardian - Film News
Lifted the below video from Kodak’s website – a test of Kodachrome color motion picture film from 1922. To provide context, the first full-length feature film in color didn’t appear until 13-years later – Becky Sharp, in 1935. No black people in it, but I thought it was cool, and worth sharing, and may be appreciated by you cinephiles out there.
Worth noting is that Kodak finally discontinued the production of Kodachrome film stock about a year ago. There wasn’t much support for it anymore.
h/t Vulture...
Worth noting is that Kodak finally discontinued the production of Kodachrome film stock about a year ago. There wasn’t much support for it anymore.
h/t Vulture...
- 8/25/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
The first full-length Technicolor film was Becky Sharp in 1935. (Check out the promo after the cut.) Though there had been experimental effects done with tinting and hand-stenciling as far back...
- 8/25/2010
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
Robert Pattinson may be the heart throb of teen girls everywhere but just a few years ago he was a struggling actor just looking to find his break in Hollywood. In The Many Faces of Robert Pattinson we take a look at his career the roles he has played and where he is going from here.
Despite the fact that many think that Robert Pattinson is nothing more then a teen heart throb his young career clearly shows that he is much about films with substance as he is about being a star. Twilight has made Robert a household name but believe it or not Robert Pattinson has played much more then just a vampire heart throb
Vanity Fair: Robert Pattinsons first role was in Vanity Fair where he played Rawdy Crawley in a small role. Vanity Fair takes place in the first half of the 19th century and is...
Despite the fact that many think that Robert Pattinson is nothing more then a teen heart throb his young career clearly shows that he is much about films with substance as he is about being a star. Twilight has made Robert a household name but believe it or not Robert Pattinson has played much more then just a vampire heart throb
Vanity Fair: Robert Pattinsons first role was in Vanity Fair where he played Rawdy Crawley in a small role. Vanity Fair takes place in the first half of the 19th century and is...
- 6/13/2010
- MoviesOnline.ca
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